> The turbo button on old computers was not an over-clocker, it was
> simply a clock-halver.  

I'm pretty sure my old 386 would go from 16 to 20 Mhz when I pressed
the turbo button though. But obviously clock-halvers were easier to
make, since all you needed was a flip-flop (2 NAND gates).

> I do remember my girlfriend's father never used the turbo button
> because he thought it would hurt the computer.

My my have we come far, today computers are 20-30% over-clocked from
the factory.

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